3 categories · Named, not rankedNmap
Nmap is a network scanning tool that finds devices on a network and checks their ports and services · nmap.org ↗
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Nmap has 5.
Why models recommend it
“Stick to established community standards like Nmap, Wireshark, Angry IP Scanner”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · alternative
“Supporting Tool: Nmap (The Network Mapper).”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Avoid making these your *sole enterprise platform* unless you have a dedicated security engineering team”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“it is often used by attackers to scan networks for open ports and vulnerabilities”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Nmap, over the 11 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 1 | View → | |
| 3 | 1 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 1 | View → | |
| 2 | 1 | View → | |
| 2 | 1 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Nmap's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- systems and network administrators
- Price stated
- free download
- Free plan or trial
- free download
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 5 of the 11 answers that named Nmap and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Fourteen of the fourteen domain citations in answers naming Nmap came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| News or press | 19 | undated | |||
| Blog | 15 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 13 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page nmap.org exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.